FWIW, he did do a song with Solange - and it’s excellent.

It's cool if he has his own stuff. Every guy I've dated who's been into it though has tried to borrow MY shit, and generally wrecked it in the process.

That is almost exactly the plot of Young Adult.

I feel like women are completely comfortable being left out of men's-only bathhouses.

Part of the tendency might just be the gender-skew - male documentarians tend to work with male subjects. There's just less chance for people to become attracted. (Not no chance, obviously - Truman Capote would have absolutely banged the subjects of In Cold Blood if they were interested).

Eh, early on when we were going out, my partner told me he could never love anyone as much as he had once loved his ex-wife. It really fucked me up. A few months later he recanted, and realised that he underestimated himself (he thought he was too damaged to love again), and this was all years ago now, but man, I…

They settled. They did not go to court.

Cheryl's lips are heavily overlined, which is where you use lip liner to draw outside the natural lips and then fill in with lipstick. It's a very Kardashian trick.

She's been kicking around since 2005, but didn't get a major label release until 2012, so a lot of the unreleased stuff is from those seven years in the wilderness. I'm partial to Kill Kill and Kinda Outta Luck. Ooh, and Smarty.

So… you don't like comic books either? What about art? Paintings?

They do! It's really indicative of the stigma against drug addiction that people prefer to come up with any other excuse for a celebrity's death.

Not to be glib, but it's kind of amazing how effective the PR misdirection was in regard to Brittany Murphy's death. My memory was that she died of some kind of complications from her diabetes.

See, it might just be a matter of taste, because I loved Black Swan. I thought she really captured suppressed neurosis and a kind of too-young-for-her-years thing that reminded me so strongly of a lot of the high achievers I know. People have praised Kunis for being more charismatic in the film, but I don't think…

I'll add myself to the apparently short list of Natalie Portman fans here. She's not Meryl Streep, but I think it's unfair to say she doesn't have range. Her characters in Closer, Black Swan and even (sigh) Garden State were all very well delineated, to me.

Sorry if I was a bit snappy, but I really dislike it when people judge others for not being conventional. Which I think is a reasonable thing to dislike.

Maybe the space works for her? Why do you care so much about her relationship, if she seems happy in it?

Oh man, An American in Paris is great, but it gave me the unshakable certainty that Gene Kelly doesn't know when to back off and give a lady some space. Excellent musical, terrible romance.

Ha, I'm reading these reviews two years late too! It's so hard to restrain myself from commenting.

Hoffman was amazing - somehow both smart and stupid, handsome and ugly, a raging id and a man in complete control. He was utterly convincing as a complete shit heel, who you could nevertheless follow to the ends of the earth.

Courtney's actually on the upswing these days. She had her bad plastic surgery fixed, and seems to know where she is and what she's doing most of the time. She has made it pretty clear that she has almost no memories of 2002-2012, when she was on various prescription pills.